FreeFileSync Forum

As I wrote above, I don't want it to run hidden when it isn't working properly, and I don't want it running when there is no need for it. I appreciate your response, but none of this explains why it has suddenly changed. I have not changed power settings, and if it was being caused by Windows Defend...

OK, looks like I will have to go on the hunt again for a sync program that does what I need it to do. It is getting really irritating having a window popping up every few minutes to achieve nothing. If I knew I could trust it to work properly, I obviously wouldn't need to see the window, but at the ...

OK, thanks for that, but this still doesn't explain the situation and why the behaviour should suddenly change. Is there no log entry that can be looked at? Is there a Windows log that would record file changes? I know that would be rather extensive, but I can narrow down the search a lot as it woul...

It doesn't detect changes as they occur, but FFS detects changes in files when it does its scan to decide which files to sync. My point is that the two programs would logically use the same criteria to decide if a file has changed, otherwise the two wouldn't work together and this forum would be flo...

Thanks for the response. I haven't installed anything new recently. My setup has been pretty stable for a while now.I am confused though how one part of the system would identify a change while the other part doesn't. Wouldn't RTS and FFS use the same criteria to identify a change? Is there any way ...

Thanks for replying. I'm not sure where the confusion has arisen, but I will try to clarify. The USB hard drive is normally connected to my PC and RTS is set up so that it will launch FFS when it is inserted or when there are file changes in the monitored folders. This worked fine for nearly 6 month...

Have I missed anything or left out information? Is this really a unique problem?

I'm no expert, but, as you haven't had a reply, I will give you my idea. First of all, I am not sure what you want to do is possible in the way you describe. As this is a one-off situation, I would use a workaround. I would do a search on the PC in the top-level directory for *.* so you get all the ...

I've just been checking, and the interval between when it runs is not related to the idle time.

About 6 months ago I set up RTS to sync a USB hard drive to my PC. I use that drive to take with me when I am travelling and using my laptop. It worked perfectly for most of that time, but over the last few weeks I have noticed that it is starting a sync but then says nothing was changed. In the win...

Thanks. I think it is working ok, but my PC power supply has failed so I have other things on my plate at the moment! I will come back to this if there are any problems when I get the PC up and running again.

OK, I have done everything and it is clearly running because I get a completion window when a sync is finished. However, I am not seeing what it does. I don't have the boxes checked for run minimized and auto-close, but no dialog is showing. I can play with deleting files and so on and see what happ...

Thanks very much for the reply. I have been using FFS off and on for years, and I have a sync defined that works fine if I start it manually in the normal way in FFS. I have followed those instructions as best I can, but it has never resulted in a sync starting when I connect the drive. So, to summa...

Hi. I feel a bit stupid, but I have spent hours looking at the help and searching through the forums, and I cannot get my head around how RTS works. Would somebody be kind enough to give me an RTS for Dummies guide? The situation I want to cover is of a USB hard drive that is normally connected to m...